Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Taylor, Sid

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

2.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

3.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

4.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

5.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

6.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

7.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

9.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

12.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

13.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

15.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

16.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

20.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

22.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

23.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

26.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

27.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

28.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

31.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

32.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

34.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

35.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

36.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

38.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

39.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.